THE LAST GATEKEEPER Everyone knows what the Gates are for.They keep monsters out.At least, that's what Kael Arven has been told his entire life. Eighteen-year-old Kael is an unranked Gate-cleaner in the poorest district of Vaelmoor, struggling to keep himself and his younger sister alive. He has no magic, no status, and no reason to believe his life will ever become anything more than scraping monster residue from ancient stone. Then Low-Gate 9 breaks. A creature emerges that should not exist. Kael survives the encounter—and something impossible enters him. An Echo. Now he can feel instincts that aren't his, remember places he's never seen, and hear fragments of a past everyone else has forgotten. And then he hears his mother's voice.A woman who has been dead for nine years.The Order calls what happened an anomaly.Kael calls it a lie.As he digs into his family's erased history, he discovers references to a forgotten Gatekeeper Corps, a mysterious event called the Seventh Breach, and records that someone desperately wanted buried. Then an ancient creature looks at Kael and does something no monster should ever do. It recognizes him. The deeper Kael searches, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Because the monsters may not be what he was taught.The Gates may not be keeping the world safe from what lies beyond them. And Kael may not have inherited a power at all.He may have inherited a responsibility.Some doors are built to keep things out.Others are built to keep something in.